It was a perfect Saturday for BRDC British F3 Championship
leader Enaam Ahmed as the Carlin driver races to a double win at
Spa-Francorchamps today (8 July).

His first win was a superb fightback drive, climbing from
seventh on the grid to overtake team mate James Pull with a lap and
a half remaining.

The second victory came after a race long battle with title
rival Toby Sowery, making a move stick on the Kemmel Straight on
lap seven, after trying for several laps. His double success
extends his championship lead to 82 points with nine races
remaining this year.

Race Two

Carlin's James Pull started from pole position, with the top eight
finishers from yesterday's race reversed on the grid. Pull made a
great start from pole position to build a lead of over two seconds
at the end of the first lap, with Cameron Das and Sowery the early
top three, while Ahmed was already making ground, climbing from
seventh on the grid to fifth at the end of the first
tour.

Ahmed then climbed to fourth on lap two, passing Jamie Chadwick,
and then put a move on title rival Sowery on lap three. A lap later
and Ahmed moved past team mate Das and began eating into Pull's
lead, which still stood at over two seconds.

By lap six, the margin between the pair was little over a second,
and at the end of lap seven there was just 0.4s between them.
Benefiting from a great tow through Eau Rouge on lap eight, Ahmed
made his move with a lap and a half to go and then streaked away to
claim victory by 1.4 seconds.

Pull was forced to settle for second place, but his podium was a
welcome return after yesterday's fightback through the field.

Sowery had a combative race, running third initially before being
passed by Ahmed on lap three, but he reclaimed the podium position
with a move on Das on lap six.

There was plenty of wheel to wheel action in the top-10, with Das
holding a podium position for much of the race before finishing
fourth, with Callan O'Keeffe climbing from ninth on the grid to
take fifth. Jordan Cane's sixth place continued his strong start to
life in British F3, while Chase Owen was another mover from 10th at
the start to claim seventh. The biggest movers though were back row
starters Tristan Charpentier and Linus Lundqvist, who finished
eighth and ninth from 17th and 16th on the grid respectively. Jamie
Chadwick's 10th place came after another drive where she was in the
thick of the action.

Yesterday's winner Ben Hingeley had a race to forget, spending
three laps in the pits early on following contact on the opening
lap from fellow race one podium finisher Guilherme Samaia. The
Brazilian driver retired in the pits and was handed a five place
grid penalty for race three by the stewards. Hingeley recovered to
finish an unclassified 16th.

Race Three

With the grid for the final race decided by fastest
laps from the previous two races, it was Ahmed on pole with Sowery
alongside him on the front row. Ahmed made a good start to lead
into the first corner, and held a 0.3 second lead at the end of lap
one. But Sowery refused to let him go and made use of a good
slipstream going down the Kemmel straight on lap two to blast into
the lead.

However, Sowery wasn't able to pull out a comfortable enough gap
and Ahmed challenged the Lanan driver several times down the Kemmel
straight, with Sowery resisting until lap seven when the Carlin
driver was able to squeeze by before Les Combes. Sowery tried to
reclaim the lead around the outside but Ahmed had it covered to
claim his second win of the weekend by 0.7 seconds.

Ben Hingeley took third place thanks to a strong opening
lap, where he overtook three cars to climb onto the podium to make
up for the disappointment of race two. James Pull improved one
place on his grid position to take fourth with a decent overtake on
Callan O'Keeffe, who ran as high as third early on, but was picked
off by Cameron Das, Chase Owen, Linus Lundqvist and Tristan
Charpentier before the end of the race and finished ninth. Chase
Owen improved three places on his grid position, while series
newcomer Lundqvist again showed good race craft to climb to seventh
from 10th on the grid.

Race winner Ahmed commented: "Toby was much quicker than me at the
start of the race and was taking slightly different lines, as I
think track conditions changed after the British GT race. He seemed
to adapt to it quicker than I did but I was able to catch him
slowly and he was running lower downforce so it was hard to get him
on the straight, so I had to maximize sector two. But once I was
able to get a good exit from turn one I was able to just about
catch him and then pass him.

"The team did a mega job this weekend because we were slow after
Silverstone and were struggling at long high speed tracks. We found
a solution and they did a mega job to get me out and give me a
competitive car for this weekend. It's been a fantastic weekend for
the championship and I couldn't have asked for
better!"